Linebaugh Family History

Thomas W. Linebaugh was born October 10, 1787 in Green Castle, Pennsylvania, the son of Daniel and Margaret Linebaugh. He married 1) Catherine Henry on December 23, 1812 in Russellville, Logan County, KY. [9] She was born February 21, 1792(related to Patrick Henry), a native of Hanover County, North Carolina; 2) Ann B. Owings on November 12, 1818. [9]

The children of Thomas Linebaugh and Catherine Henry were:

1. William Henry Linebaugh born September 30, 1813. [9]

2. Margaret Catherine Linebaugh born December 23, 1815 [9] in Russelville, Kentucky. Died in Robertson County, Tennessee on April 15, 1846. Married Robert Brumfield Mitchell. [9]

3. John Henry Linebaugh born February 23, 1817 [9]; died ______; married 1839 Mary Grey

After Catherine Henry died he married Ann B. Owings on November 12, 1818 and settled near the border of Todd and Logan Counties, Kentucky. She was born Jun 1800 in Kentucky.  Thomas died after being thrown from his horse coming home from Russelville, Kentucky on January 3, 1856, age 69 years. [9] Ann died in 1868 at the age of seventy three.

4. Thomas Joseph Linebaugh born January 12, 1823, [9] in Logan County, Kentucky; died Oct. 1, 1905 and buried in the Linebaugh Cemetery District 1 on State Line Road, Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky. He was raised on his father's farm; he continued to follow farming until 1877, when he went to Guthrie and opened a drug store, which, after running a few years, he sold out and engaged in the grocery and liquor business. He married in 1847 Miss Mary Jane Reasons (or Reasoner?), of Montgomery county, Tennessee. She was born Aug. 19, 1830 and died June 1, 1895. They had one son. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, and owned a farm in Montgomery County of 300 acres. [2]

5. Mary Elizabeth Linebaugh born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky on June 4, 1825 [9]; died 1907; married Samuel Finley Mitchell.

6. Benjamin Edwards Linebaugh born June 21, 1830 [9] in Russellville, Logan County, KY. Ben enlisted in 1861 and served four years in the Civil War in Company F, 11th Tennessee Infantry with the rank of 2nd corporal. Died November 18, 1901. He married Louisa Byrd Miles on January 11, 1866. She was born March 4, 1844 in Robertson County, TN.

[1] Ophelia Scott source of information.

[2] The story of Todd County, 1820-1970.

History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, Page 361. [Town of Guthrie]

JO LINEBAUGH was born January 12, 1823, in Logan County, Ky.; he is the
son of Thomas and Ann (Owings) Linebaugh. The father was a native of
Pennsylvania; he died in 1854, aged seventy. The mother was born in
Maryland; she died in 1868, aged seventy-three. Our subject was raised
on his father's farm; he continued to follow farming until 1877, when
he came to Guthrie and opened a drug store, which, after running a few
years, he sold out and engaged in the grocery and liquor business, which
he still continues. Mr. Linebaugh was married in 1847 to Miss M. J.
Reasons, of Montgomery County, Tenn. One son has blessed this union.
Mr. Linebaugh is a member of the Board of Trustees; he owns a farm in
Montgomery County of 300 acres, well improved.

[3] - 1810 Census - Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky - Thos Linebough page 184, line 760

[4] - 1820 Census - Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky - Thomas W. Linebaugh

[5] - 1830 Census - Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky - Thomas Linebaugh

[6] - 1840 Census - Robertson County, Tennessee - Thomas Linebaugh

[7] - 1850 Census - Robertson County, Tennessee - District No. 6

Wm. J. Grigsly.........40.....M.......Blacksmith..........................Tennessee

Thomas Linebaugh...63.....M.......Farmer...........1500.............Pennsylvania

Ann Linebaugh.........50.....F...................................................Kentucky

[8] - 1850 Slave Census - Robertson County, Tennessee - Thomas Linebaugh

[9] - Fannie Mitchell Milam genealogy information on her grandfather Thomas Linebaugh.

[10] Logan County, KY Order Book 5 June 1809 - April 1813

P. 121, James Sands, 18, is apprenticed to Thomas Linebaugh, potter.